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Visual Communications: Uprooted from the Scenes

2016年07月28日

In the Tateuchi Democracy Forum Join Visual Communications for the tenth edition of their popular summertime community extravaganza, organized and hosted by VC’s stable of summer interns. Screenings will include highlights from the 2016 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, works from VC’s Armed with a Camera Fellowship and Digital Histories senior media workshop, and select premieres by local APIA filmmakers. ...

"Strawberry Yellow" by Naomi Hirahara

2013年03月30日

Mas Arai is a taciturn, sometimes even curmudgeonly retired gardener with a past. Born in Watsonville in California’s strawberry country, he was raised in Hiroshima, Japan, and as a teenager survived the 1945 A-bomb. After the war, he returned to Watsonville to start over, finding shelter with cousins and work in the strawberry fields. Now, after moving to Altadena and spending a lifetime as a gardener, Mas re...

CAPE presents An Evening With Carrie Ann Inaba

2012年06月07日 - 2012年07月07日

An intimate evening with Dancer, Choreographer, Producer, Television Host, and Judge on "Dancing With The Stars", Carrie Ann Inaba, one of the most admired artists, who happens to be of Asian American Pacific Islander descent, where she will share her path to success from Fly Girl to her role as a prime time television star! This exclusive intimate evening is special to CAPE and is intended to offer perspective and i...

Urban Gardens for Small Spaces: A Container Gardening Demonstration

2007年09月09日

In conjunction with the exhibition Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden, the National Museum presents a four-part series of gardening demonstrations led by horticultural experts. PART 4 Horticultural consultant and LA Times garden writer Lili Singer shows you how you can improve your green thumb -- even in small spaces -- through container gardening. Single demonstration price: $8 National Museum membe...

Art-Talk-Art: "The Impossible Series"

2003年04月03日

The first in a series of six lectures and conversations with distinguished contemporary thinkers and artists. This program will focus on how our conceptions of the "possible," potential and pragmatic, shape our understanding and creative responses to "the impossible". A reception will follow. For more information and for the schedule of lecturers, please visit www.farsited.org or call F.A.R. at 213.386.5572.

Enhancing Your Creativity: A Writing Workshop

2002年12月14日

Have you ever had the desire to write poetry, fiction or memoirs, but don't know where to begin? Then come to the National Museum's writing workshop, where instructor Cecilia Manguerra Brainard will teach participants how to enhance their creativity by learning how to tap into the right-brain. Specific exercises will be given and participants will have the chance to do some writing and sharing. Brainard has been t...

Passports to Friendship

2002年07月27日 - 2002年10月13日

In 1927, millions of American and Japanese children participated in an exchange program aimed at promoting peace, goodwill and understanding between their two nations. American children sent 12,739 dolls to coincide with the traditional Japanese Girl's Day festival known as Hina Matsuri. Later that year, Japanese children reciprocated by sending 58 dolls to the U.S. in time for Christmas celebrations. Each doll ca...

'Ohana' Day at the Japanese American National Museum

1998年03月25日

Kids, bring your family and friends for a free, fun-filled day at the Japanese American National Museum! Sunday, April 26, 1998 is Ohana Day (family day) at the Museum, where families can learn origami, try on authentic plantation clothes, and come holoholo (play) with us! You can also tour our latest exhibit on Americans of Japanese ancestry living in multicultural Hawai`i, From Bento to Mixed Plate. The Museum is...

Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II

1997年08月03日

Lecture and Book Signing Photographer Joan Myers and Gary Okihiro, Ph.D., essayist of the book Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II, join the Museum to speak about this extraordinary publication and the exhibition currently on view in the Museum’s Legacy Center. Joan Myers is a respected fine art and documentary photographer who journeyed across the western United States to photograph the rem...

Toyo Miyatake

Having smuggled a lens and film holder into one of America’s concentration camps during World War II, Toyo Miyatake was among the first to photograph this national disgrace. Yet it was his little-known artistic pursuits before the war that honed his discerning eye. Toyo Miyatake: Infinite Shades of Gray is a penetrating portrait of this photographer’s quest to capture the beauty and dignity of everyday life. Direc...